"You want to be great in this league, you just can not say 'Tuesday I feel like working. Thursday I feel like working. Sunday I feel like working.' It's got to be every day," Paterno insisted. "Austin has all the potential to be a great football player. But it's got to be almost a compulsion. All the great ones I've had - Curt Warner, Blair Thomas, (D.J) Dozier, Larry Johnson's kid - had it. It's that kind of, 'I want to be the best, and I know what it takes to be the best.'"

Unusual players already know, or they learn pretty quick.

Obvioulsy it's up to Austin Scott to figure it out.

Obviously, Scott has not been blessed with a great offensive line like some of those great backs Paterno rattled off. But most of Scott's woes appear to come from getting in trouble off the field--the proverbial Paterno DogHouse. Hopefully, Scott has figured out a way to chew through that leash--and run unleashed this coming season.